Fishing-rod.



' PATENTBD MAY 1, 1906. e. c. BEARSB.

FISHING ROD uruqn'xox nun 423.12.1005.

I nvenior: George 0.13earse.

UNITED S ATES" GEORGE c]: BEARSE, or PORTLAND, MAINE.

' FISHING-ROD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' :atented May 1, 1906.

Application filed April 12, 1905. Serial No. 255,077.

To all whom it may concern.-

7 Be it known that I GEOR C. BEARSE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portland,county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented an Improvement in Fishing-Rods, of which the following description,,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like figures on the arrangement of the reel seats as herein drawings representing like parts.

Myinvention relates to improvements in fishingrods, and particularly to the manner of mounting the reel thereon; and the aim of the invention is to provide means whereby the position of the reel upon the rod may be readily changed to adapt the latter foruse as abalit or trolling rod or for fly-casting, as deslre .the line 2 2, Fig. 1.

In accordance with my invention as shown in the embodiment selected for illustration I have provided the handle of the rod with reel-seats at both ends of the grip, whereby the reel may be positioned above the grip when the rod is to be used as a bait or trolling rod and may be changed to a position at the rear of or below the grip to adapt the rod for fly-casting. To this end the rod-handle 1 shown in the drawings herewith is provided above and below the grip 2 with extensions 3 3, affording longitudinal seats for the reel; To maintain the reel in alinement with the rod and the usual guide-loops, each seat extension may be provided with longitudinal ribs 4, which may be struck up from the material of the extensions or otherwise formed, as desired. The ferrules 5 at both ends of the handle are provided with sockets 6, adapted to receive one end of the reel stand or support 7 of the reel 7*, the opposite end of which may be secured upon the seats 3 by means of slidable collars 8 at opposite ends of the grip 2. To shift the reel readily from front to rear of the grip, and vice versa, it is only necessary to slip the collar 8 off the reel: stand, shift the reel to the seat at the opposite end of the handle, and slip the collar 8 on that seat over the stand.

The nature of my inventionwill be clearly By providing the rod-handle with reelseats at opposite ends of the grip, as herein described, detachment and reversal of the handle as now commonly practiced for the purpose of reversing the position of the reel is avoided, thereby obviatin the wear upon and consequent loosening of the parts incident to this operation. Furthermore, in the shown the reel is maintained always upon thesame side of the rod, whereby the alinement of the reel with the guide-loops upon the rod is maintained whether the reel is above or below the grip. With the reelseats in alinement, as stated, it is possibleto employ two reels upon the rod at the same time, whereby when the supply of line of one is exhausted that of the other may be connected with the first by a suitable clip and paid out from the second reel, thus providing for a larger amount of line than could be carried by a single reel of convenient size, the alinement of the reels on the same side of the handle affording an arran ement which readily adapts itself to this en It is to be understood that the details of construction herein described may be altered same plane, combined with means to secure a reel in either of said seats.

2. A fishing-rod, having a butt provided with reel-seats at its opposite ends and in the same plane, combined with means to secure a reel in either or both of said seats.

3. A fishing-rod, having a butt provided with fixed sockets at opposite ends adapted to receive a reel stand or support, and collars slidable on said butt and adapted to engage the reel stand or support and thereby cooperate with the sockets to secure the reel stand or support upon the butt.

4. A fishing-rod, having a butt provided with fixed sockets at opposite ends adapted to receive a reel stand or support, and collars slidable on said butt and adapted to engage the reel stand or support and thereby cooperate with the sockets to secure the reel stand or Tupport upon the butt, combined with a ree 5. A fishing-rod handle or butt, having a Lki 6. A fishing-rod handle or butt, having a grip, and longitudinal reelseats arranged at both ends of the handle I or butt and at opposlte ends of the grip.

7. A fishing-rod handle or butt, having a grip, and ion itudinal reel-seats arranged in alinement at oth'ends of the handle ,or butt and ate posite'ends of the gri I stand, a grip on said butt between the same, and means at each end of said grip adapted to hold the other end of said reel-stand, whereby the reel may be held either above or below said grip.

9. A'fishillg-IGd butt, provided at each end with a socket for holding one end of a reelstand, a 'gripon said'b'utt between the same, and means carrie'dbysaid butt at each end of said grip and slidable on said butt and adapted to hold the other end of said reel-stand,

whereby the reel may be held either above or below said rip. g

10. A fisliing-md butt, rovided at each end with a socket for hol ing one end of a reel-stand, a grip on said butt between the same, and means carried by said but tat each end of said grip and adapted to hold the other end of "said reel-stand, whereby the reel may be held either above or below said grip.

11. A fishin -rod butt, rovided ateach end with a so'c et for hol ing one end of a 8. A shing-rodbutt,provi' ed at each'end with means for holding one end of a reel reel-stand, a grip on said bntt'between the same, and 'a'collar carried by said 'b'utt at each end ofsaid grip and slidable on said butt and adapted to hold the other end of said reel-stand, whereby thereel may be held either above or below said rip.

In testimony fwhere'of have "signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

l GEORGE UBEARSE.

Witnesses:

JOHN 0.061313, JAMES L. RACKLEFF. 

